 Outlaw Bryn Fortey 212 Caerleon Road Newport NP19 7GQ UK £2 subscriptions: 4 issues £7 [Europe £9; RoW £11] cheques [sterling only] payable to "B. Fortey"] Before commenting on this review please read the FAQ page Home page Notes for publishers Want to be a reviewer? Anthologies. Books. Audio. Magazines. Software. Video. Artefacts. Web design by Gerald England This page last updated: 28th April 2005. |
Outlaw #7 | |
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Outlaw reeks of angry old bloke. It's the house style. 18 male poets to one female— and I'd be surprised to learn that any of them was under 40. Bob Dylan, Burroughs, the Blues, the Beats— all the "B"s. Most of these poets underwent their epiphany sometime in the early 60s and they've been soldiering, trudging, motoring on in the true faith ever since. Don't you know we're on the eve of Destruction? Yes, Dad— so you've said many times before. Calm down now and take your meds. These guys are my generation, but not of my tribe. I can cope best with their grizzled wisdom when it comes with a touch of self mockery— when, for example, Bryn Fortey celebrates the gift of a woolly hat from fellow greybeard t. kilgore splake [sic] or when Dave Church explains why his woman left him in the early 70s and serve him right. But mainly I stand back and eat the dust of their Harleys in sissified bemusement. Outlaw is published irregularly and is clearly a labour of love for its editor, Bryn Fortey. If you're male, remember the summer of love and fancy yourself in a bandana it could well be for you. P.S. I'm told by them as knows that Fortey has published all-women collections in the past. | ||
| reviewer: Tony Grist. | ||
| Outlaw #8 | ||
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Outlaw #8 is a very busy example of an independently produced magazine. There is a lot of poetry crammed between its covers with extras added as afterthoughts in the corners of some pages. The editor, Bryn Fortey, has an obvious love of poetry with this issue featuring a few contributions from the outside the UK, notably the US. This can only augur well, since the spread of the internet has made the literary community, particularly the poetic one, less insular and more open to outside influences, but of course less prone to hard-copy publishing unfortunately. For all that, it is good to see a hard copy of a magazine even with the sheer weight of poems this copy contains. As the title suggests, the content tends away from the mundane, choosing poems that may be perceived as difficult, or more challenging than the usual. It certainly broadened my outlook. | ||
| reviewer: Barbara Smith. |